JB, I look forward to your reaction to Penny Lane's archival documentary "Our Nixon," once you get a chance to see it. The reviews from film critics have been favorable ( http://www.metacritic.com/movie/our-nixon ), e.g. J Hoberman writing colorfully about it entering the canon of Nixon media:

"Perhaps there is no Richard Nixon but only the public spectacle we might call the Nixoniad. The so-called Checkers speech of 1952 gave him a larger audience than any politician in history had enjoyed up until that time. The 1970 photograph of him with Elvis remains the most requested item in the National Archive. Nixon’s trip to China occasioned an opera; his televised interviews with David Frost from 1977 were fodder for a Broadway play and a Hollywood movie. The media is his home. Our Nixon’s funniest bit catches the Leader of the Free World in private conversation with Haldeman and Ehrlichman, pondering the sitcom All in the Family and ranting about the glorification of homosexuality on the public airwaves. To watch Our Nixon is to see our thirty-seventh president as the ghost in the machine, a funny-looking gremlin who haunts the national TV set."http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=42612

There was a series of paperbacks in the early 60s of news photos with funny captions added. As a teen I devoured them. I still remember a couple--there's Fidel Castro swinging a baseball bat and saying "Quick! Nationalize the outfield!"

And there's Nixon as vp in his famous "kitchen debate" with Khruschev. He's talking earnestly to a skeptical Premier saying, "But Cheer gives you a much whiter white." What was especially funny about it was that you could believe Nixon had actually said it.